With excessive power, excessive spirits, and even increased temperatures, Splash Home Weekend One turned up the warmth in Palm Springs. The Margaritaville, Saguaro, and Renaissance Palm Springs resort pool events delivered a novel expertise as folks performed and danced the recent days away. The Friday evening pre-party and Saturday afterparty on the Palm Springs Air Museum additionally delivered an thrilling element to the expertise.  As a extra localized competition, we loved a enjoyable and approachable ambiance that felt like a playground for dance music lovers, new and previous. 

Regardless of the extraordinary warmth (we’re speaking temperatures simply shy of 115 levels), folks carried on with upbeat power all through the weekend. We may really feel that individuals actually embraced the expertise and got here collectively to let unfastened and have enjoyable. Maintain studying for our full Splash Home Weekend One 2024 Pageant Report Card.

Vibes: A-

General, we had a optimistic crowd expertise at Splash Home. The setting felt playful and welcoming. Individuals introduced enjoyable outfits, floaties, and trinkets to commerce, pals greeted, and strangers hyped one another up. Regardless of the swimming pools turning into slightly crowded throughout elements of the day, aggressive and impolite habits by no means felt like a major downside. Every of the three resorts supplied a novel ambiance and power, and having the chance to change issues up and discover totally different places made the competition expertise really feel like a enjoyable journey. 

Top-of-the-line highlights of the Splash Home expertise is that the attendees deliver the ambiance to life. We cherished seeing how on-site friends remodeled their lodge rooms right into a spectacle by adorning their balconies and even throwing themed afterparties of their rooms. Fellow attendees we mingled with whereas wandering the resorts have been extremely useful, pleasant, and beneficiant, and we felt very included and welcome. The employees was typically pleasant and useful, though we encountered some disorganization and miscommunication points as some employees members didn’t know important data like instructions for navigating the resorts.

It was clear that the warmth took its toll on some attendees, and lots of needed to step away from the occasion into the lodge lobbies to flee the excessive temperatures. Nonetheless, we have been glad to see folks caring for his or her wants and staying protected.

Manufacturing: B

Whereas manufacturing at Splash Home leaned extra on the straightforward facet, we have been total proud of the expertise. The set-up directed folks’s consideration to the music and environment, creating an interactive collective ambiance. Every resort featured a stage design that mirrored the character of the setting ultimately, and we loved seeing the inventive expression behind every design. Margaritaville featured a jungle oasis, The Renaissance delivered a lounge-like ambiance, and the Saguaro introduced issues to life with many vibrant, cheerful colours–the foyer even featured a mini Barbie lodge to go together with the theme!

Throughout the varied places, the audio programs delivered a very good high quality expertise with crisp and wealthy sound. The music felt highly effective sufficient to get everybody bouncing and transferring with out being too loud. The After Hours Celebration on the Palm Springs Air Museum encountered technical difficulties that prompted interruptions throughout Duke Dumont’s set on Saturday evening. Nonetheless, we loved the lasers and the manufacturing workforce’s inventive use of the air museum displays.

Music: B

For home and techno lovers, Splash Home Weekend One was the place to be. We loved energy-packed units from Shipwrek, Solardo, Biianco, and Gorgon Metropolis b2b Inexperienced Velvet on the swimming pools, and AC Slater and Chris Lorenzo’s “Fly With US” set kicked issues off straight into excessive gear on the Friday Evening pre-party. We additionally loved a change of tempo with Nitti, and  Odd Mob & Omnom’s bass-heavy “Hyperbeam” set on Saturday.  We thought the lineup may function extra variety concerning style illustration, and generally, some artists’ units sounded indistinguishable from others. Nonetheless, the music offered nice power for a pool occasion ambiance, and we hardly stopped dancing all weekend lengthy.

Venue: B –

Splash Home occasions happen in a number of totally different places, and navigating them is totally different from the standard competition expertise. Getting from one occasion to a different required a lot of commuting, which was facilitated by free shuttles. We typically discovered that commuting on the shuttles felt fairly simple, and wait instances solely normally lasted about quarter-hour. This offered a handy approach to get round, though the warmth generally made the method uncomfortable. 

Attendees who stayed on-site on the resorts had a terrific benefit as they may shortly be part of the occasion straight from their rooms and had full entry to lodge facilities. Those that stayed off-site needed to drive or depend on rideshares to reach on-site, which generally prompted roadway congestion, notably at evening’s finish.  We thought there was room for enchancment concerning the wristband-pickup course of, which required all attendees to select up their wristbands in particular person at will-call. This created lengthy strains and confused some attendees. We additionally thought meals choices may use enchancment as there have been solely a few meals distributors on-site, they usually have been solely obtainable for a restricted time throughout the day. The next choices have been to order meals from the lodge eating places, which required exiting the designated competition space or ordering meals from off-site. 

On a optimistic be aware, the resort settings have been lovely, and we cherished the aesthetic of every venue. The grounds have been additionally typically simple to navigate and supplied good accessibility.

General: B

Splash Home Weekend offered a enjoyable and lighthearted expertise in a good looking setting that genuinely felt like an enormous rave-family get-together. We noticed folks having fun with themselves, enjoying, and sharing area peacefully, and the occasion total attracted good power. Regardless of logistical and organizational bumps, this was a splendidly accessible and approachable competition.

The primary problem to notice was the acute warmth. The circumstances generally made it troublesome to loosen up and revel in features of the expertise solely, and it was sometimes essential to take additional steps to remain protected within the warmth. We perceive that nobody can management the climate, and the competition workforce did what they may to mitigate the circumstances–that is merely a actuality to think about when making ready for the occasion. 

Regardless of the warmth, the enjoyable prevailed, and we loved a stable weekend of excellent music and nice power. Splash Home is a good looking competition for anybody who desires to shake issues up and sit back on the identical time whereas having fun with a novel competition expertise. 

Photos courtesy of Splash Home, Cowl picture by Zoe Politis